Today marks a year since I boarded the plane without you. It all happened so fast. We were both last minute getting there. When my phone was ringing as it came out of the x-ray machine, I didn’t expect to hear what I heard on the other end. You brought your expired passport. I panicked. I didn’t know what to do. By the time I got to the gate they were starting to board. I didn’t have time to think. There was no time. I was frantic in my mind trying to figure it out. I always figure it out. So I got on the plane.
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Notes to Neverland: Be a Grown-Up
“Be a grown-up.” There was a period of time when that was a common phrase you’d use. I don’t know what triggered it to start or when you stopped saying it, but it still echoes in my mind several months later. Nobody was safe from those words. Not a stranger on the street. Not me. Not even you. The first time you used them towards me I was a little offended. I felt called out. I felt guilty. I felt like I’d let you down. It seems silly because it wasn’t all that serious. You weren’t trying to make me feel any of those things. Every one of those feelings was my own. But it was your words that prompted them. Little did you know what an impact they would have on me. How long they would haunt me.
Caffeinated Chaos 
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